Raising Emotionally and Socially Healthy Kids

Course Overview

Kids and parents alike are constantly under pressure. This course provides expert guidance on helping children develop crucial life skills in:
✔ Emotional intelligence
✔ Friendship building
✔ Self-confidence
✔ Coping mechanisms

Through 12 practical lectures, you’ll gain research-backed strategies to support your child’s social-emotional development from early childhood through adolescence.

Video Lectures

01: Developing Your Child’s Emotional Intelligence

Duration: 34 min
Learn techniques to help children understand and regulate emotions, both during meltdowns and in daily life. Discover how parents influence emotional development.

02: Anxiety – The Way Out Is Through

Duration: 31 min
Practical methods to help children cope with anxiety triggers, physical symptoms, and anxious thoughts/behaviors.

03: How Kids Manage Anger – Positive Discipline

Duration: 30 min
Effective responses to childhood anger, alternatives to punishment, and strategies to avoid power struggles while teaching healthy emotional expression.

04: Building Authentic Self-Esteem

Duration: 33 min
Understand developmental changes in self-concept and learn how to genuinely support self-esteem at different ages.

05: Teaching Kids to Care – The Roots of Empathy

Duration: 31 min
Explore the three components of empathy and methods to nurture compassionate behavior in children.

06: What Makes Kids Happy?

Duration: 33 min
Strategies to help children build lives incorporating pleasure, engagement, and meaning while overcoming perfectionism.

07: How Children Make Friends

Duration: 30 min
Track friendship development from childhood to adolescence and learn ways to support social skills.

08: Playing Well with Others

Duration: 28 min
Examine stages of play development, the importance of pretend play, and how to handle winning/losing.

09: Making Up and Breaking Up with Friends

Duration: 28 min
Understand childhood friendship conflicts and how to support children through relationship challenges.

10: Belonging, Status, Popularity, and Rejection

Duration: 29 min
Analyze four categories of social status and the hidden dynamics of childhood popularity.

11: Teasing and Bullying

Duration: 28 min
Learn to distinguish bullying from ordinary meanness, and strategies to address both sides of bullying situations.

12: Growing up Social in the Digital Age

Duration: 32 min
Navigate online risks and teach children to use digital platforms safely and kindly.